Study: Early Spankings Make For Aggressive Toddlers

[Fujiko]

Validation!

Study: Early Spankings Make For Aggressive Toddlers

[New_Natural_Mom]

I saw that too and linked to it on my FB page. Hopefully all the spankers I know will read it.

[dachshundqueen]

I am too lazy to read the study/article, but we figured that one out on our own. If William was hit, he hit and bit you all day long. It was awful. Even my spouse picked up on it and he's pretty slow when it comes to intuitive stuff like that.

Liz

[LilacMama]

They didn't really define what "spanking" meant. I have a hard time imagining anything beyond a hand slap for a 1 year old. Is that what they're talking about or are there really that many people "paddling" their 1 year olds? That just seems bizzare to me.

[Dandelionkid]

Originally Posted by LilacMama

They didn't really define what "spanking" meant. I have a hard time imagining anything beyond a hand slap for a 1 year old. Is that what they're talking about or are there really that many people "paddling" their 1 year olds? That just seems bizzare to me.

Good point. That would be very interesting to know.

[Minarai]

Originally Posted by LilacMama

They didn't really define what "spanking" meant. I have a hard time imagining anything beyond a hand slap for a 1 year old. Is that what they're talking about or are there really that many people "paddling" their 1 year olds? That just seems bizzare to me.

You'd be surprised.
I've read excerpts of books that say to use dowel rods and willow switches on children as young as a few days old. And people claim that this makes their children "happy"... :

[dex_millie]

There are research for everything these days, I sure there are some supporting spanking too. There is so much research eighter way that I get confused. Especially since everyone including myself was spank (the slap on hand thing) before we was 1 and I nor my siblings was agressive toddlers. We was the opposite. I think it is more than just the spanking that does it. It has to do with how your parents and people in your life treat you. Of course we had some agressive toddlers, some shy ones, some inbetween ones, normal toddler behavior ones.
My husband is also from that type of culture too and he was the opposite of an aggressive toddler and he was spanked a lot more...he says he mother even regrets it now that she have been englightened.

We just believe there is a better way to discipline, but we don't agrue with people about it as we see on both side of the fenses (non-spankers and spankers) they each have some aggressive toddlers. And I can't agrue with something I have never experience, I don't have any adult friends/family that has never been spanked.


I sure there are extreme cases that was mentioned in a pp about using switch rods and paddling stuff for such young children....I am from a place that is pro-spanking and have not seen or heard of anybody doing this at such a young age, I wouldn't even consider them normal spankers.

[Bea]

Researchers found that black children were spanked and verbally punished the most, possibly because of cultural beliefs about the importance of respecting elders and in the value of physical discipline, or because parents feel they have to prepare their children for a racist and potentially dangerous world.

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Say what?!!!!

*utterly speechless*

[Fuamami]

Originally Posted by Bea

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Say what?!!!!

*utterly speechless*

I've heard this a lot. In most of these studies I believe minorities are cited as using physical punishment more because they feel that they are judged more in public when their children misbehave.

[justKate]

Originally Posted by LilacMama

They didn't really define what "spanking" meant. I have a hard time imagining anything beyond a hand slap for a 1 year old. Is that what they're talking about or are there really that many people "paddling" their 1 year olds? That just seems bizzare to me.

What in the world would be the purpose in "spanking" a 1 year old baby?!

[dex_millie]

Originally Posted by justKate

What in the world would be the purpose in "spanking" a 1 year old baby?!

Teaching them not to touch things they shouldn't. My parents and my brother wife and others swear by it. This is started usually before one, when they start touching and grabbing ornaments and such. I think with young children we should just put the ornaments away. I grew up in a hous with ornaments. The center table had ornaments, around the tv had ornaments inbetween the couches had ornaments it was a cultural thing I guess.

Originally Posted by Bea

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Say what?!!!!

*utterly speechless*

Preparing us for a raciest place is a reason why we are spanked wow..
I do see it as a cultural thing though....